Technologies are shown for shipping route selection involving receiving sender and recipient shipping information for an item to be shipped and obtaining shipping route options for the item based on the sender and recipient shipping information. The route options are provided for display and selection of an option. A routing data block is created for the item at an address on a blockchain that stores shipping information for each stage of the selected route. A shipping tag is encoded with the blockchain address and attached to the item. The tag can be scanned to obtain the blockchain address and request information for a next stage of the shipping route from the block. The next shipping information from the block is received and utilized to ship the item to a next geolocation. The next shipping information can be determined based on current conditions, such as weather, pricing and availability.
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2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising encoding a shipping tag with the contract address of the smart contract for the item to be shipped.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the shipping tag comprises one of a shipping label and an electronic device for attachment to the item to be shipped, and the computer-implemented method includes attaching the shipping tag to the item to be shipped.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising creating an initial routing data block for the item on the blockchain, the initial routing data block having a blockchain address and the initial routing data block including the shipping information for each stage of the selected shipping route.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the smart contract includes an identifier for a transaction for the item to be shipped.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the supporting data relating to the one or more shipping entities includes one or more of shipping route, pricing, availability, time to ship, delivery date, special handling capability, and reputational data.
14. The system of claim 10, further comprising creating an initial routing data block for the item on the blockchain, the initial routing data block having a blockchain address and the initial routing data block including the shipping information for each stage of the selected shipping route.
20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 19, further comprising encoding a shipping tag with the contract address of the smart contract for the item to be shipped.
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